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9 sewage samples test positive for polio across Pakistan
.jpg "polio") ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set. Currently the disease is only found in Pakistain and Afghanistain...virus, confirmed the regional reference laboratory for polio eradication at the National Institute of Health Islamabad. According to The News, the samples were collected in December 2023 from Multan ...Home of the Multan Sultans... , Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... South, Karachi Malir, Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire... , Nowshera, Dera Ismail Khan ... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ... , Quetta, Hub and Mastung and tested positive for Type-1 Wild Poliovirus (WPV1). In Multan, the environmental sample was collected on December 18, 2023, from the Ali Town environmental sample collection site, which is the first positive sample from District Multan in 2023. In Karachi South, the environmental sample was collected on December 20, 2023, from the Manzoor Colony environmental sample collection site, which is the sixth positive sample from District South in 2023. As far as Malir Karachi is concerned, the environmental sample was collected on December 19, 2023, from the Landhi Bakhtawar environmental sample collection site, which is the second positive sample from District Malir in 2023. In Peshawar, the environmental sample was collected on December 19, 2023, from the Shaheen Moslem Town environmental sample collection site, which is the 30th positive sample from district Peshawar in 2023. The environmental sample in Nowshera was collected on December 18, 2023, from the Mill Colony environmental sample collection site, which is the second positive sample from District Nowshera in 2023. In Dera Ismail Khan, the environmental sample was collected on December 20, 2023, from the Sherpao & Zafarabad environmental sample collection site, which is the second positive sample from District Dera Ismail Khan in 2023. The environmental sample in Quetta was collected on December 18, 2023, from the Surpul environmental sample collection site, which is the 9th positive sample from district Quetta in 2023. In Hub, the environmental sample was collected on December 18, 2023, from the Jumma Khan Bazar environmental sample collection site, which is the third positive sample from district Hub in 2023. In Mastung, the environmental sample was collected on December 19, 2023, from the Adalatabad environmental sample collection site, which is the first positive sample from District Mastung in 2023. The isolated virus collected from all the environmental samples is classified as a YB3A cluster. These new detections take the total number of positive environmental (sewage) samples in Pakistain in 2023 to 124. Posted by: Fred 2024-01-20 |
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